The December 15, 1951, issue of Boxoffice Magazine carried a small ad placed by Jim West, owner of the Hollywood Theatre, offering the house for sale or lease. No price was quoted, but the ad boasted “Everything Modern – Good Location” and said that the Hollywood had 875 seats.

The Hollywood ended its career as a church. It was very plain on the outside and probably a typical plain neighborhood theatre inside. The neighborhood at Hollywood St and Chelsea Ave (where the theatre stood) was once a thriving middle class neighborhood. It has since become very low income and somewhat depressed.

I’m not sure when the Hollywood closed as a movie theater. It was still in operation in 1962, and I guess it could have continued without bothering with ads in the paper for a while.
I believe it again was a movie theater for a little while in the 1970’s, around 1973/74.